In an interview with NPR last Friday, Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly described the illegal aliens pouring across our border in the most gentle manner imaginable.
He said that illegal aliens aren’t “bad people,” but also “not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our modern society.” They are, he continued, mostly rural, poor, unskilled and illiterate. “They don’t speak English,” Kelly said. “Obviously, that’s a big thing.”
Kelly violated the civic religion of treating every non-American as better than an American — a potential valedictorian, Medal of Honor winner and Nobel Prize recipient. Naturally, he was called a “racist.”
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So what was the point? You’re going to be called a “racist” no matter what you say, so why not be honest: Illegals are self-entitled law-breakers and thieves, stealing jobs and government benefits meant for our own people.
Our cliche-driven media huffed and puffed about Kelly’s presumed descent from immigrants.
CNN’s Don Lemon said, “But like most Americans, Kelly comes from a family of immigrants, doesn’t he?”
If you’d read “Adios, America!” Don, you’d know this is PC nonsense. As late as 1990 — a quarter-century into Teddy Kennedy’s plan to remake our nation into a Third World hellhole — half of the population traced its roots to the Americans of 1790. We’re a real country, made up of the people who created it, much like other countries.
There were Irish here at the time of our founding who fought in the Revolutionary War. I’m related to one.
CNN’s John Berman said: “(I)f I remember my high school American history — and I do — America in the midst of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century was built on immigrants.”
It’s as if nothing happened in America until 1850 — no Jamestown, no Declaration of Independence, no Constitution, no creation of a brand-new civilization out of mud.
Long before America experienced its first immigrant wave in the 19th century, this was already a wildly successful country — rich, literate and free (with one glaring exception, soon to be corrected in the only war ever fought to end slavery). We’d won a war with Great Britain, conquered the West, and invented electricity, refrigeration, suspension bridges and a democratic republic.
Twitter lit up in response to Kelly’s inoffensive remarks, with idiots pointing out that THE SAME THING WAS ONCE SAID ABOUT THE IRISH!
Yes, and the people who said it were right. Let’s not sugarcoat what wonderful immigrants the Irish were.
All immigrants have been a problem in their own way. Italian immigrants brought us organized crime, something America had never experienced before. Jewish immigrants brought us radicals, communists and anarchists, setting off bombs all over the place. Irish immigrants brought poverty and shocking levels of crime — also William Brennan and Teddy Kennedy, the two men who did more than any others to wreck our country.
In the draft riots of 1863, New York City’s Irish exploded in feral violence over the Emancipation Proclamation, fearful that they would soon have to compete with freed blacks for jobs.
The Irish ran wild, lynching blacks and burning black establishments to the ground. As described in Leslie M. Harris’ book “In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863,” the Irish rioters “made a sport of mutilating the black men’s bodies, sometimes sexually. A group of white men and boys mortally attacked black sailor William Williams — jumping on his chest, plunging a knife into him, smashing his body with stones — while a crowd of men, women and children watched.”
Luckily for the Irish, there were no ethnic activist groups leaping in to excuse their bad behavior. President Lincoln sent in federal troops to crush the savage uprising. (Hey, President Trump! Lincoln is a very popular president!)
And these were European immigrants, most of whom spoke English, contrary to the claptrap you’ve heard in reaction to Kelly’s remark this past week. Today we’re getting peasants who not only don’t speak English, they don’t even speak Spanish and are also illiterate in their own dialects.
The Irish were driven out of their country by a one-time calamity — the potato famine. This wasn’t how they always lived. Starving poverty wasn’t their culture.
Still, the Irish were — at one time — among the poorest immigrants we ever got and the slowest to assimilate. It took 120 years, by political analyst Michael Barone’s estimate. (Imagine a time when our worst immigrants were the Irish!)
And they might still be a problem if The New York Times had demanded special rights for them, the ACLU had brought lawsuits on their behalf and the Southern Poverty Law Center had screamed “racism” whenever anyone noticed their bad behavior.
Instead, no-nonsense Irish priests knocked them upside the head and told them to sober up and go home to their wives. (Back then, the Catholic Church was not about “immigrant rights”; it was about cleaning up their own bums.)
By the 1950s, the Irish were outearning other Americans. Many reformed so well that they became Republicans.
That was then, this is now.
Wow, I actually like an Ann Coulter post. I am amazed.
Ann Coulter wants Trump to emulate the second-most bloodthirsty president this country has ever had. Well, it’s not exactly a surprise.
How do you derive that conclusion from this Post?
Historically there has never been a successful multi ethnic nation. Never.
That’s the whole idea of “third worlding” America. To destroy the nation.
Perhaps deporting the Indians to reservations was a good idea then.
You are such a maroon, foxtrots. You can’t get over the 1950’s.
Like Al Bundy, you are always re-living that HS football game where you scored 4 touchdowns.
WW2 was a once in a lifetime opportunity and America fights every day to retain that hegemony.
I have grown weary of Ann “Look at my legs” Coulter. This myth that the Irish left Ireland because of some mystical potato famine is bull hockey. The Irish left Ireland because protestants like Ann C. were stealing their food and leaving the Catholics to starve with their BS laws. The so-called potato famine was engineered from start to finish to destroy Catholic Ireland.
And Ann, the Irish didn’t bring poverty, they brought what the friggin English protestants left them; Nothing.
Even when they try to project sympathy for the Irish poor, dumb protestant “christians” keep screwing things up.
The Catholic Inquisition barbarism doesn’t need resurrecting; the potato blight is history and the English used it to further their pogrom against the Irish, and that is why so many left Ireland 1845-49.
The Catholic Inquisition was not barbarism. It was in fact very exacting and just. That’s one more of those anti-Catholic myths that needs to be nuked from orbit.
Did you know THE BIBLE says Catholics are the Whore Of Babylon? Hilarious fact.
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Did you know it was the Catholic Church that collected and codified sacred scripture and that She alone had the authority to pronounce it as such; not Martin Luther, not Hus, not Calvin, no one outside the Church had that power and authority.
God gave the Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven to Peter and his successors. Without the authority of the Catholic Church there would be no bible.
Just sayin’
Inquisition was Islam with a cross.
Actually I like looking at her legs. Matter a fact, I like the whole package.
wtf, Coulter is smart but a long way from pretty or hot.
Ya, Cliff; Probably then Candace Owen stiffens you up; more your type.
She’s not smart, she just found her niche in the anti-immigrant shriek-a-thon.
“The Departed”, a movie about Irish mobsters, starts with a voice over by Jack Nicholson, the lead character, saying, “I don’t want to be the product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.” I am the grandson of 4 Irish immigrants, and laughed when I heard that line. Yup.
That attitude might explain why the Irish, who arrived dirt-poor in the 1840’s, were running many of the major cities in this country a couple of generations later.
I’d heard the Irish had the gift of gab but they also had practical talents in stealing elections and intimidating voters. These are favorite methods for gaining and keeping power anywhere ‘free’ elections are held.
Old Joe Kennedy looked around for the means to quick riches and found it in the smuggling business. Those who claim Trump is better because he isn’t Hillary fail to notice they are two sides of the same tortilla. They are both from NY where crooked is as crooked does.
When other Europeans came to America in the 18th / 19th / and the early part of the 20th century – American was a different place. For one thing, a German / Englishman / Irishman may have had different languages – but we were all ‘civilized’ – on the same plane. One was able to do farming or labor – they helped build the country. The industrial revolution and education changed all that.
Today the US is entirely different. There is little need for unskilled labor, or semi-literates, or people who aren’t fluent in English. Things are more complex, and one needs to understand detailed instructions – even for blue collar jobs. Then there is culture. How in the hell is a Somali that has never seen running water / light switches / etc going to assimilate in a First World country? They aren’t – and they don’t.
The US is now ‘built’. These illegals / immigrants have nothing to offer in our society. They have come here for welfare. It’s completely backwards from the 18th and 19th century.
Automatic fruit picker (goodbye guest workers):
automatic lettuce harvest:
That automatic fruit picker and lettuce harvester were built in Mexico. So, nothing has changed.
That lettuce picker was built by: Taylor Farms, 150 Main Street, Suite 500,Salinas, CA 93901
Taylor Farms is owned by a Mexican.
Once they perfect the automated ass-kisser, a lot of folks here will be out of a job kissing Trump’s pork butt.
“Illegals are self-entitled law-breakers and thieves, stealing jobs and government benefits meant for our own people…”
Why not have undercover cops stake out the benefits office and employment office? Then when the illegals show up to steal the benefits and jobs, arrest them. Seems pretty obvious to me.
Or, possibly, consider eliminating government benefits to illegals. And maybe eliminate barriers to employment for citizens like minimum wage laws, high taxes, and “entitlements” that pay better than actually working. Then, maybe there wouldn’t be incentives for illegals to go through all the trouble to get here. But I guess that’s just stupid.